Markets

• Price per Bitcoin BTC is at ~$4187 USD (+53% from last Monday)
• Price per Ether ETH is at ~$300 USD (+33% from last Monday)

Articles

• Bitcoin Surpasses $4,000, Reaches Another Milestone by Forbes
• Putin's Aide Seeks $100 Million to Rival China in Bitcoin Mining by Bloomberg
• Here's What Goldman Is Telling Big Money Clients About Bitcoin by Bloomberg
• Despite S.E.C. Warning, Wave of Initial Coin Offerings Grows by NY Times
• Buoyant Bitcoin Stirs Crypto-Bubble Fears by NY Times
• 3 reasons why bitcoin is soaring to record highs by CNBC
• HBO email suggesting $250,000 bitcoin payout for hackers who stole 'Game of Thrones' script is a 'delay tactic’ by CNBC
• Beyond Bitcoin: Overstock Lets Customers Pay With More Than 40 Alt Coins by Fortune
• Protocol Labs Raises $52 Million in Filecoin “Advisor Sale” ICO, Public Offering is Available Now on CoinList by Crowdfundinsider
• Bitcoin Makes Even Smart People Feel Dumb by Wired
• Bitcoin Has No Intrinsic Value. Neither Does A $1 Bill by Wired
• Microsoft Goes Ethereum: $561 Bln US Company Releases Ethereum-Based Protocol ‘Coco’ by Cointelegraph
• A Quick Reminder Why Bitcoin was Invented in the First Place by Playbook
• What is Cryptocurrency Game Theory: A Basic introduction by Block Geeks
• Plasma, Vitalik’s proposal to scale Ethereum by Plasma

This week’s new initial coin offerings (ICOs)

• Hubii.com is an existing location-based news aggregator website that has 50 Million daily users.
• Hubii is building an Ethereum based content marketplace that enables content creators to store, distribute and licence their work.
• The marketplace will support text, still images, audio and video.
• Content creators can publish their songs, books, images, Podcast, articles and videos on Hubii with a smart contract that enforces payment of ‘Y’ Hubiits when the content is played, read, used ‘X’ number of times with ‘Z’ percent paid to distributors as distribution fee.
• Hubii is creating a new coin Hubiit to raise captial in an ICO.
• They are aiming to raise $40 Million USD with a minimum target of $5 Million USD.
• 70% of the Hubiits minted to be sold in the ICO.
• The ICO is planned to begin on August 18, 2017.

• BitDice is an existing online Bitcoin casino with 2,300 Bitcoin profit made to date.
• BitDice is raising capital in an ICO to fund their expansion plan.
• 40% of the funds will be stored as BitDice’s house bankroll to pay out winning bets.
• 25% will be used to fund platform developments and business expansion.
• 10% will be used in marketing and the remainder 25% will be kept as reserve.
• The CSNO token will be a reward token where 70% of future profits of BitDice will be distributed amongst CSNO holders quarterly.
• A total of 100 Million CSNO tokens will be created and 70% will be offered in the ICO.
• The ICO is uncapped therefore the final exchange price will be determined after the ICO ends.
• The ICO is scheduled to begin on August 14.